FROM
VOL.
18 NO.2
THE
GROUND
UP
a publication of STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS
Fall 2010
Advocating
for Change
Focus on
INSIDE
members &
p. 2 FAN
Events
Push for Key
p. 3 AFarmworker
Bills
p. 4 Farmworker
Testimonies
Students
p. 5 SAF
Advocate for Change
Stories of
p. 6 Laborlore:
Work
p. 7 Acknowledgements
p. 8
Funders,
Program Updates,
Announcements
“We are working in the tobacco
now. And many times we leave
work feeling dizzy, because of
the chemicals. It affects us a lot.
In other harvests it isn’t so bad,
but in the tobacco it
really affects us. I think it was
on Monday while we were
working, the boss came by
spraying the pesticides in the
field right next to us. And the
wind carried it all over us. We
felt very sick, it makes us dizzy.”
-North Carolina farmworker,
Summer 2010
Clockwise from top: Juana standing in her kitchen. Photo by Josefina Chic. Misael, Antonio, and Ismael in the
tobacco field. Photo by Dida El-Sourady and Elizabeth Moore. Santos' hands. Photo by Irene Rivera & Natividad
Chavez.
It's
Time for a Harvest of Dignity
by Chris Liu-Beers for the Farmworker Advocacy Network
On the day after Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame CBS News
report on the state of America’s migrant workers shocked a nation. Murrow exposed the
dangerous conditions and lack of dignity that characterized farm work. Describing a scene
of workers being recruited to work the fields, Murrow narrates: “This is the way the humans
who harvest the food for the best-fed people in the world get hired. One farmer looked at
this and said, ‘We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.’”
Fifty years after Harvest of Shame, not much has changed. Farm work remains one of the
nation’s most dangerous industries. In North Carolina, dangerous conditions in the fields,
poverty wages and substandard housing continue to threaten workers’ health and wellbeing. Workers often put in 14-hour days in bad weather – including extreme heat and rain.
Seven farmworkers died of heat stroke in a recent five-year span in North Carolina.
Employers with 10 or fewer workers are not required to provide clean drinking water or
toilets during the workday.
And heat stroke isn't the only problem in the fields. North Carolina is rightfully famous for
its tobacco production. While tobacco is a valuable crop, it poses special risks to the workers who harvest the plant all day long. A quarter of tobacco workers experience nicotine
poisoning through the skin at least once in a growing season. In just one day, workers can
absorb the amount of nicotine found in 36 cigarettes.
SAF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
whose mission is to bring students and
farmworkers together to learn about
each other's lives, share resources
improve
conditions for
and skills,
farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions
working for social change.
STAFF
Nadeen Bir
Advocacy & Organizing Director
Bart Evans
Coalition Coordinator
Raúl Granados Gámez
Migrant Youth Director
Laxmi Haynes
Program Director
Rosalva Soto
Program Coordinator
Joanna Welborn
Assistant Director
Melinda Wiggins
Executive Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tom Arcury
Ruben Campillo, Treasurer
Ajamu Dillahunt
Ronald Garcia-Fogarty
Irene Godinez, Secretary
Mercedes Hernandez-Pelletier
Evan Hughes
Mary Lindsley, Vice Chair
Michelle Lozano Villegas
Fawn Pattison
Courtney Reid-Eaton
Cris Rivera, Chair
Juvencio Rocha-Peralta
Alice Tejada
For more information or to submit
articles to the newsletter, contact:
From the Ground Up Editor
Joanna Welborn
[email protected]
Published by SAF | Copyright 2010
STUDENT ACTION
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FROM
THE GROUND UP
...Harvest, continued from p. 1
Farmworkers do some of the most dangerous work in the country, but they don't
have the same protections as workers in
other industries. Their labor is the
backbone of North Carolina’s largest
industry, and every day we eat fruits and
vegetables that have been handpicked.
Yet most farmworkers don't get overtime,
workers' compensation or other benefits,
and nearly half cannot afford enough food
for their own families. Many are not even
entitled to the minimum wage.
The Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN)
is a statewide network of organizations
that work to improve living and working
conditions of field and poultry workers in
North Carolina. Since 2003, we have been
collaborating to bring workers' voices to
the legislative process.
FAN has helped to secure important
legislation affecting farmworkers, including the 2009 NC Migrant Housing Act
bill and a 2008 pesticide bill. This fall, as
we give thanks for the abundant harvest
that comes to our tables, we're building
on these successes with an exciting new
campaign.
A New Campaign
This November, SAF and other
Farmworker Advocacy Network members
will call on all of us to support a new
harvest – a harvest of dignity.
We can all play a part in making our state a
healthier, safer place for all workers. For too
long, we've left reform to the next generation, but now is the time to get this right.
We don’t want our children and grandchildren to sit down at their Thanksgiving
tables only to watch another Harvest of
Shame.
As Murrow said fifty years ago, “Only an
enlightened, aroused and perhaps angered
public opinion can do anything about the
migrants. The people you have seen have
the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. They do not have the strength to
influence legislation. Maybe we do.” Today,
FAN is bringing together field and poultry
workers, community organizations and
people of faith to make a difference.
Please Join FAN at www.ncfan.org.
| Fall 2010
FAN MEMBERS
ALIANZA (UNC Chapel Hill)
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP)
East Coast Migrant Head Start Project*
Episcopal Farmworker Ministry
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Legal Aid of NC - Farmworker Unit*
National Farm Worker Ministry
NC Community Health Center
Association
NC Council of Churches
NC Farmworkers' Project
NC Farmworker Health Program*
NC Justice Center Immigrants Legal
Assistance Project
NC Latino Coalition*
NC Migrant Education Program*
NC Occupational Safety & Health Project (NCOSH)
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
Toxic Free NC
Telamon*
Western NC Workers’ Center
*Advisory Members
EVENTS
Join us for the
Harvest of
Dignity
work-in-progress
film premiere
NC Latin American Film Festival
Nov. 16, 7pm
UNC Global Education Center,
Nelson Mandela Auditorium
www.latinfilmfestivalnc.com
Using documentary photos and interviews
done by SAF interns, film footage with NC
farmworkers, legislators and educators, and
clips from the original Harvest of Shame, the
half-hour Harvest of Dignity documentary
focuses on safe places to live, safe places to
work, education, and enforcement of workplace laws.
Visit www.ncfan.org to find out about other
screenings of the film.
Farmworkers and Their Organizations
Push
for Key Farmworker Bills in D.C.
by Adrienne DerVartanian, Senior Attorney/Policy Analyst for Farmworker Justice
This year,
Congress, farmworkers and their advocates have
continued to push for several critically important bills for farmworkers at the national level. Key among these is the Agricultural Jobs
Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act (“AgJOBS”), a farmworker
immigration bill. AgJOBS is a labor-management compromise bill
that was reached in 2000 after years of Congressional conflict.
AgJOBS is also included in the comprehensive immigration bill
introduced in the House of Representatives in December 2009,
known as “CIR ASAP.” During previous Congresses, AgJOBS enjoyed
several victories—most notably, the Senate included AgJOBS in its
bipartisan comprehensive immigration bills in both 2006 and 2007,
although those bills did not become law.
AgJOBS is urgently needed for our nation’s farm labor system. Over
50% of farmworkers are undocumented workers. Because of their
status, they live and work in the shadows and are often too fearful
to complain about workplace violations or to bargain for better
wages and working conditions. We depend on these workers for the
food on our tables. Passage of AgJOBS would provide
The United Farm Workers union has launched the Take Our Jobs
campaign to promote AgJOBS by “spotlight[ing] the immigrant
labor issue and underscore[ing] the need for reforms without
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which the domestic agricultural industry could be crippled . . ..”
a legal, stable labor supply; would help ensure
that farmworkers are treated fairly; and would
provide a model for passage of comprehensive
immigration reform.
If enacted, AgJOBS would (1) create an “earned adjustment” program, allowing many undocumented farmworkers and agricultural
guestworkers to obtain temporary immigration status based on
past work experience with the possibility of becoming permanent
residents through continued agricultural work, and (2) revise the
existing agricultural guestworker program, known as the H-2A
temporary foreign agricultural worker program.
Lead sponsors Senator Feinstein (D-Cal.) and Representatives Berman (D-Cal.) and Putnam (R-Fla.) introduced AgJOBS in the Senate
(S. 1038) and House of Representatives (H.R. 2414) on May 14, 2009.
Since that time, Senator Lugar (R-Ind.) has become the Republican
sponsor in the Senate. In addition to being a stand-alone bill,
The campaign encourages U.S. workers to take farmworker jobs.
On September 24, 2010, the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on
Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing titled "Protecting America’s Harvest" that
addressed the Take Our Jobs campaign. Witnesses included UFW
President Arturo Rodriguez and comedian Steven Colbert of the
Colbert Show, who testified about his experiences doing farm labor
for a day.
AgJOBS sponsors and advocates, including the UFW and Farmworker Justice, hope to build on the momentum from this hearing
and continue to push for the passage of AgJOBS this year. Given
the election, there is only limited opportunity for bills to be
debated and voted on.
Visit our website, www.farmworkerjustice.org/agjobs,
or the UFW website, www.ufw.org, for more information
about AgJOBS.
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http://takeourjobs.org/
The other key federal legislation for farmworkers is the Children's Act for Responsible Employment ("CARE
Act"), which was introduced by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard in the House of Representatives on September
15, 2009. No companion bill has been introduced in the Senate at this point.
The CARE Act would amend the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards Act ("FLSA") to treat child workers in agriculture in same
manner as child laborers in other industries. Currently, child farmworkers receive
fewer protections under FLSA than do other child workers in terms of the age at which they can begin
to work and at which they can perform hazardous work, as well as the restrictions regarding the number
of hours and the times during which they can work. As of September 22, 2010, the CARE Act had 105
cosponsors; however, because of the election and the limited time remaining on the legislative calendar, it
will be challenging to find an opportunity to bring the CARE Act up for a vote. More information about the
CARE Act can be found at http://www.hrw.org/support-care.
"I worked with a lot of older
people and younger. The ages
were always varied, 11 and 12
year olds, even 10 year olds. They
didn’t get paid [on the books],
they’d just go and help their
parents on the side. The growers
know that. They see that—they
would pass by when they drop
off water. No one was going to
say anything.”
- SAF alumni Maria Mandujano
testifying in a congressional
briefing about the CARE Act
this February, 2010.
The lame duck session is one final opportunity this Congress to pass legislation important to farmworkers. Please show your
support of farmworkers by encouraging your Congressional members to support AgJOBS
and the CARE Act. Visit www.farmworkerjustice.org to find out how to contact your Congress members and take action.
Fall 2010 |
FROM
THE GROUND UP
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Worker
Testimonies
Background | This summer, SAF intern Luke Walsh-Mellet
worked with the Farmworker Advocacy Network to collect
20 testimonies from farmworkers throughout North Carolina.
Through these testimonies, workers describe the conditions of
farm work, their experiences of injustices and oppression, and
how they believe conditions in agriculture can be improved.
FAN will highlight these testimonies in the upcoming Harvest of
Dignity campaign.
"Farmworkers are part of all of our lives, even though we do not always
see it. They do incredibly difficult work, but remain pushed aside and
hidden at the margins of our society. During the past summer, I was
able to talk to many farmworkers about their lives, and I feel both
privileged to have gotten to know such amazing, hard-working people,
and also ashamed at the conditions that they are forced to live and
work in, in our supposed nation of equal rights and opportunity.
Farmworkers, and immigrants in general, live as second-class citizens
and it is time that people recognize and change that fact."
-SAF intern Luke Walsh-Mellet
"I think that the minimum wage ought to change. Because
those that work in the fields work very hard, they suffer a lot,
and it is not an easy job. There are many people who die in the
fields, especially in tobacco, because of the heat. I think that
those who work in the fields deserve more for what they do."
-Delfran Vasquez
"Imagine working from sunup to sundown, all day long,
and sometimes it is very hot, and you're not allowed to rest,
sometimes it gets to 100 degrees. They don’t ever tell you to
stop for a little bit, to rest a minute. There is a lot of injustice in
the fields, that is what there is. Many people are afraid, they
are scared to talk about it. Mostly because a person comes to
work for their family. Because a person wants to help out their
family in Mexico. No one comes here because they want to.
People come out of necessity, to work, because you can make
more money here than in Mexico."
– NC Farmworker
"I have a son who is working in the fields, and he was telling
me yesterday that they had to work without water, during
lunchtime they didn’t give them any water. They didn’t get
any breaks, no rest. Now, this season, even today, the
conditions of work are the same, they have not changed at all.
Although there are laws, laws that protect the farmworkers,
they are not using them. I don’t know why, but they are not
enforcing the laws. There is no soap to wash their hands. And
in heat of 110 or 115 in the fields, there is no water. And they
still have to work, they cannot stop. Because if they stop, they
will be fired. They have to keep working."
FROM
THE GROUND UP
"There are children who are 6 or 7 years old who are working
in blueberry, picking tomatoes, picking sweet potatoes. 6 or
7 years old, and they are already working. They don’t have
vacations right now, they are working. There are supposed to
be laws, but they're not used. Where are they? There are 6 or 7
year old children working in the fields. I’m not saying that they
shouldn’t work, but that they are treated well, that they are
given the rights they are owed."
-NC Farmworker
"We only want to be treated decently, to have our rights, that
we are respected, that they realize that we are people with
feelings, that we are like them, we are also make of flesh and
bone and our skin doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter where we
are from, we are all equal.
I hope that my saying this helps people, that it helps the
public or lawmakers or whoever hears this to listen and see
that this is real, that it is not a lie. What else do they need
so that they will realize that what is happening is real, that
people are truly suffering? There is a lot of injustice, there are
children with real needs working in the fields.
Supposedly there are laws to protect the workers, but they
are not being used. The farmers, the Americans do not respect
the laws. It is difficult."
-Guillermina Garcia
-NC Farmworker
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FAN worker meetings. Photos by Joanna Welborn
| Fall 2010
SAF students
advocate for change
Many of you know about our Into the Fields internship and Sowing Seeds
for Change fellowship. In addition to these summer programs, SAF trains
and mentors students to be advocates throughout the academic year
through our Levante Leadership Institute and Student Organizing School.
Levante
Leadership Institute
The Levante Leadership Institute (LLI) enhances the organizing and
leadership skills of middle, high school, and out of school youth from
farmworker families in Eastern North Carolina. Farmworker youth
participate in workshops about team building, farmworker issues, education issues, documentary work, college preparation, and community
organizing.
LLI students use popular education theater to write and perform plays
about issues affecting their community, such as children working in
the fields, racism, and access to education. The youth also participate in
lobby days, meeting with legislators in NC and Washington, DC to share
their stories and advocate for improved legislation for farmworkers and
migrant youth.
LLI Orientation. Photo by Raúl Granados Gámez
2010-2011 Levante Leadership Institute
Students:
Alejandro Perez
Alicia Enriquez
Bianca Perez
Elvis Ordoñez
Herber López
Ivan Custodio Silva
Jose Antonio Duran
Jose Ruiz Mijarez
Karin Rivera Lopez
Maria Enriquez
Mariana Leyra
Servando Perez
Student
Organizing School
This fall SAF launched our first annual Student Organizing School (SOS), bringing
together college student leaders to organize their campuses and advocate for
improved farm labor conditions. SAF trains and supports SOS students to learn about
the history of the farm labor movement, current campaigns, and popular education
and organizing.
SOS coordinator Nadeen Bir describes the program, “SAF values the efforts of students
in making their campuses more just by understanding their role as consumers and
allies in improving the working and living conditions of the men, women, and children
who harvest their food. We want to support and mentor students as they organize their
campuses and become key organizers in the farmworker movement."
SOS students are organizing in support of the following campaigns:
SOS Orientation. Photo by Raúl Granados Gámez
2010-2011 Student
Organizing School
Students:
Christine Contreras
Diego Lopez
Guadalupe Arce Jimenez
Laura Stroud
Laurel Ashton
Lauren Traugott-Campbell
Matthew Clark
My-Linh Luong
• Harvest of Dignity Campaign - the Farmworker Advocacy Network uses legislative
advocacy to improve laws for field and poultry workers while also developing grassroots leadership and including the voices of farmworkers in the process.
Go to www.ncfan.org to support the campaign
• Access to Education Campaign - the Adelante Education Coalition seeks to increase
college and university access opportunities for immigrant youth, organize grassroots
student leaders, and increase public support for Hispanic/Latino and migrant students.
Join the campaign at www.adelantenc.org
• Reynolds Tobacco Campaign - the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is targeting
RJ Reynolds tobacco company through a divestment strategy on college campuses
because of their lack of accountability to farmworkers as part of their supply chain.
Take action at www.floc.org
Fall 2010 |
FROM
THE GROUND UP
5
Documenting Laborlore:
Farmworker Stories of Work
Farmworkers plant, till, pick, carry, harvest and pack the foods we eat everyday. What is the meaning of farm work
for those who have left their countries, their homes, and their families in order to bring food to our tables? This
summer, SAF interns and fellows went into the fields to photograph and interview farmworkers throughout the
Southeast, collecting stories of work and working conditions, rituals of preparing for work, traditions of passing
time at the end of the day, and jokes, jargon and narratives shared between workers. Along with all our SAF
documentary work, these stories and photographs are collected in the Archive for Human Rights at Duke and
UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Folklife Collection and are available for research.
"What I would like to see is, even
though they are all immigrants,
that they get paid overtime after
eight hours, or that they get treated
with a little more respect, with the
respect that they deserve. Because
to work where they work is very
difficult, it's a job that many
couldn't handle, if they weren't
immigrants.
Nery holding a tobacco flower. Photo by Alvaro Sosa & Lucia Granados
"Well, no, they don't tell us because, well you can see that they
are applying the poison or it smells like it afterward when
you're entering the field. It smells like poison and so you realize
what it is. But no, since the boss speaks English and you speak
Spanish, you don't understand each other much."
-Nery So, I would like to see the people
who work in the fields more
appreciated. Because they are hard
working people, and they don't
withstand the work because they
want to, but because they don't
have any other choice. And they
are the only jobs available for
immigrants, there's no other
option."
- Martha
Martha's family portrait. Photo by
Eva Lamas & Jelissa Suarez
"When I began it was 2005, the eleventh of July, picking
okra. I got there the first day of work to pick okra, and it's
hard work. I thought that here in the United States it's easy
to earn money. That first day of work they sent me to a
mud puddle. The hurricane had just passed. I had rubber
boots. I regretted it, so I asked myself, why did I come here?
Here the work is harder, but I come because the dollar
has a higher value than the Quetzal. I earn four dollars for
eight hours there, and I'm only earning thirty quetzales.
And here I earn a little money to buy things for my kids in
Guatemala.
Workers taking a break. Photo by Baltazar Alvarado with Kirby Erlandson & Michelle Lozano
Villegas
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FROM
THE GROUND UP
On the first day of picking okra I barely did four boxes.
They were paying me $2.50 per box, which would total
$10. I spent $5 on lunch, and I was left with $5. By the end
of the day I was left with nothing. All the money was gone.
Because the work was slow. It was so slow and you have to
pay rent, electricity bills, deposits and everything. Nothing
is given to you in the United States."
- Francisco
| Fall 2010
Fall 2010 |
FROM
THE GROUND UP
5
Thank you to these individuals for
supporting SAF this year, May-Oct 2010 :
Alaina Burr
Alejandra Okie
Alex Poeter
Alice Kathleen Wheet
Alice Tejada
Alison Blaine & Libby Manly
Alison Sample
Allen & Susan Spalt
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Amelia Alexander
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John Thorne
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Mary Mace
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Gottschalk
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Hodges
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Chris Van Hasselt
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& Beth Stringfield
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& Ann McKown
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We want to recognize all our donors. Please contact us at [email protected] if you
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Thompson
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FROM
Philip Kellerman
Quirina Vallejos
Rachael Mossey
Rachel Craft
Rachel Wheat
Rachel Wright
Rachele Drum
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Ramiro Arceo
Ramon Zepeda
Raul Granados Gamez
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Roberto Tijerina
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Fogarty
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Ryan Fink
Sally Migliore & Andrew Meyer
Sally Wilson
Samantha Fernandez
Samantha Lubkin
Sammy Truong
Sandy Preiss
Sara Carlson & Peter S. Tavernise
Sarah Evans
Scott Cooper
Sean Balkwill
Seema Kakad
Sharlene Simon
Sharon Brown-Singleton
Sharon Coleman
Shedra Amy Snipes
Sheila Payne & Paul Ortiz
Shelly & Maria Baum
Sherry Honeycutt Everett
Shreena Amin
Sonya J Hall
Steph Gans
Steven Feldman
Steven Petrow
Susan Sachs & Susan Sutton
Susan Trabka
Susana Diaz
Tana Willse
Tema Okun & Thomas Stern
Thomas Constantine & Ester Carrera
Tim Walter & Kristin Bass
Tobi DeVito
Tom Arcury & Sara Quandt
Tony Macias
Vent & Yyvonne Burr
Veronica Bustabad
Vicki Stocking
Vonnie Calemine
Wade & Surada Dansby
William & Garrie Kingsbury
William David Austin
William Woodring
Yuliya Lokhnygina
Zama Coursen-Neff
and many more anonymous
donors!
THE GROUND UP
7
Out of the Loop?
Thank you to our funders this year:
Anonymous Fund of Triangle Community
Foundation, Arthur Carlsen Charitable Fund of
Triangle Community Foundation, Association of
Farmworker
Opportunity
Programs,
BlueCross
BlueShield of NC Foundation, Church Women
United, Conservation Fund, Duke Endowment,
Environmental Protection Agency, Golden
Corral Charitable Fund of Triangle Community
Foundation, Hispanics in Philanthropy, LP
Brown Foundation, National Institute of Health,
NC Arts Council, NC Community AIDS Fund,
NC Community Shares, NC Farmworker Health
Program, NC Migrant Education Program,
Oxfam America, Public Interest Projects, Puffin
Foundation, The New World Foundation,
Triangle Community Foundation’s Community
Grantmaking Program, Wake Forest University
School of Medicine, Western NC Conference
of the United Methodist Church, Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation. Special thanks to our
Documentary and Alumni Advisory Groups, and
the Center for Documentary Studies for their
ongoing support.
Thank you to these churches,
businesses & organizations for
supporting us, May-Oct 2010:
Appalachian Regional Healthcare System,
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Health Services,
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association,
Duke Engage, Farmworker Unit Legal Aid of
NC, Good Samaritan Clinic, Good Shepherd
Catholic Church, Guilford College, Hispanic
Liaison, Jibarra Downtown, Lenoir County
Public Schools, Magic Johnson Foundation,
Matthews United Methodist Church, Church
of Reconciliation, NC Justice Center, Panda
Restaurant Group, Piedmont Health Services,
Inc., SC Primary Healthcare Association, SC
Migrant Health Program, SC Legal Services
Migrant Unit, The Chapel of the Cross, The Rural
Women's Health Project, Tienda Mexicana El
Michoacano, UNC APPLES, and Watts Street
Baptist Church.
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ITF theater performance. Photo by Raúl Granados Gámez
LEVANTE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
SAF selected 12 middle school, high school and
out-of-school youth for the 2010-2011 Levante
Leadership Institute. Students completed an
orientation where they learned about SAF’s work
and farmworker history, shared their cultural
traditions, and started working on theater skits
about child labor and access to education. Please
contact Raúl if you're interested in providing snacks
for Levante meetings: [email protected].
FROM THE GROUND UP
SAF launched the Student Organizing School (SOS)
this fall, recruiting 8 students representing UNC-CH,
NC State, Duke, & Western Piedmont Community
College to organize students on their campuses. We
have two spots left for student organizers. Contact
Nadeen today if you're interested in participating:
[email protected].
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For your 2011 Calendar...
Save the Date!
Start planning an event for
National Farmworker Awareness Week
March 27- April 2, 2011
Fundraise for SAF through the
Farmworker Awareness Campaign
March 27- May 20, 2011
ITF Internship &
SSC Fellowship
Application Deadline:
February 11, 2011
INTO THE FIELDS/SOWING SEEDS FOR CHANGE
We had a great summer with 31 interns and fellows
who reached out to over 5500 farmworkers. SAF is
excited to welcome alumni Rosalva Soto to the staff
as our new Program Coordinator! We are beginning
to recruit for the 2011 ITF and SSC programs. Email
Rosalva if you'd like to help with recruiting:
[email protected].
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